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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (80094)4/26/1999 4:09:00 PM
From: Jay  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Mary Re ""New Airlines", I would use one of Intel's new datacenters"

I think Tony pointed out the key reason why mainframes are better
for this kind of application - you have one centralized database.

You wouldn't want the same seat sold to two different people.

This is difficult/expensive to ensure with multiple machines
updating the same database.

In a read-only environment - like most web-surfing - the information
can be easily and cheaply replicated among many machines. I believe
CSCO makes a router that automatically maps the same IP address
to 50 machines.

So if you want to serve a lot of read-only people - buy a bunch
of Celerons and this kind of router and you're in business!
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